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Planning the Next Steps: Using an Implementation Intention Approach to Increase Daily Walking
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Control Group and Implementation Intention Condition for Sedentary Lifestyle and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 63 participants.
Detailed Summary
The study goal is to design an intervention utilizing implementation intentions to help participants prospectively plan and visualize ways to increase activity for the next day among working adults who do not currently exercise or use an activity monitor. Investigators will assess the level of and changes in physical activity, and how this relates to various individual factors that are related to exercise and health, including self-efficacy, control beliefs, and cognition.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants will wear a Fitbit Zip for 5 weeks to record their daily activity data. The first week of the study will provide a baseline measurement of activity. After this week, participants in this condition will begin receiving daily emails asking them to report their step count in a questionnaire. Participants in the control group will be matched with the intervention group for how much contact they have with the researcher.
Participants will wear a Fitbit Zip for 5 weeks to record their daily activity data. The first week of the study will provide a baseline measurement of activity. After this week, participants will be asked to increase their steps incrementally by 2,000 steps each week for the subsequent four weeks. To help achieve their step goals, they will receive maps of different routes near their home and/or work of varying distances and step counts. They will be asked to review their schedule for the next day and identify times when they could add steps into their schedules, and to record their daily step data in the daily questionnaire.